Event #69: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship Day 2 | 2022 World Series of Poker

07-03-2022 14:42 UTC-8

Assorted Counts and Casualties

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Vivian Saliba	448,000 181,500	181,500

Ryan Franklin	415,000 116,000	116,000
Allan Le	375,000 45,000	45,000

Ashly Butler	280,000 20,000	20,000
Ognjen Sekularac	250,000 96,000	96,000
Nai Hu	210,000 38,000	38,000
Dzmitry Urbanovich	160,000 97,000	97,000
Luis Calvo	150,000

Dario Sammartino	100,000 34,000	34,000

Adrian Buckley	Busted

Laurids Nielsen	Busted
Anthony Zinno	Busted

Joseph Lamkin	Busted
Yashuo Chin	Busted
Brekstyn Schutten	Busted

Hanna Khalaf	Busted

07-03-2022 14:38 UTC-8

Lehr Folds to Taylor's Aggression

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Esther Taylor raised to 8,000 from an early position and Keith Lehr then potted to 27,000 with 31,500 behind. Taylor quickly piled in a tower of T-5,000 chips and that sent Lehr into the tank. He took off the glasses and glanced at his cards while Taylor jokingly flashed her four cards very quickly.

"This is my blind spot, I can't see," Lehr mentioned and Taylor grinned back "that's why I show them to you" (the cards were not visible by any means).

Ultimately, Lehr folded double-suited kings and Taylor exposed he .

Player	Chips	Progress
Esther Taylor	270,000 109,000	109,000

Keith Lehr	31,500 28,500	28,500

Tags: Esther Taylor Keith Lehr

07-03-2022 14:35 UTC-8

Kruk Among the Big Stacks

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Christopher Kruk was one of several dozen late entrants and has already been able to run up a big stack in the opening stages of the day. He now sits on nearly seven times the starting stack while James Crowshaw and Joseph Leung on his former table have vanished.

Player	Chips	Progress
Robert Nehorayan	450,000 80,500	80,500

Christopher Kruk	410,000 350,000	350,000
Ian O'Hara	140,000 80,000	80,000

James Crowshaw	Busted
Joseph Leung	Busted

Tags: Christopher Kruk James Crowshaw Joseph Leung

07-03-2022 14:29 UTC-8

Haraldstad Hammering Away Early

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Mike Patrick

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

The seat to the left of Joachim Haraldstad has been a one-way ticket to the rail so far today.

Peter Levine had replaced Frank Kassela in that seat with Haralstad and his tablemates sharing the details of Kassela's elimination.

Haraldstad held middle set with on a flop while Kassela held and over 400,000 chips ended up in the middle with Haraldstad's set holding to eliminate Kassela.

Shortly after that, Levine found all of his roughly 25,000 chips in the middle preflop against Haraldstad.

Peter Levine:
Joachim Haraldstad:

The board ran out , with Haraldstad making a straight on the river to eliminate Levine and add another chunk to the biggest stack in the room.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joachim Haraldstad	815,000 195,000	195,000
Frank Kassela	Busted

Peter Levine	Busted

Tags: Frank Kassela Joachim Haraldstad Peter Levine

07-03-2022 14:16 UTC-8

More Early Day 2 Casualties

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Hastings	Busted

Anderson Ireland	Busted

John Riordan	Busted

Rory Rees-Brennan	Busted
Jonathan Cole	Busted
Matt Glantz	Busted

Vincent Moscati	Busted

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 3,000

07-03-2022 14:12 UTC-8

Le Down to Start the day

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Mike Patrick

Level 11 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Defending Champion Tommy Le has had a slow start to the day, including dropping a recent pot.

After Davidi Kitai limped in early position, Le completed his small blind, and then Yarin Cohen raised to 8,500 from the big blind.

Both his opponents called and the trio saw a flop of . Le checked to Cohen who continued for 12,500. Kitai folded, but the defending champion called.

On the , he checked again and Cohen sized up to 29,000. Le didn't take long to fold and cede the pot to his opponent as his stack took another hit to start the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tommy Le	325,000 35,000	35,000

Yarin Cohen	197,000 47,000	47,000
Davidi Kitai	161,000 14,000	14,000

Tags: Davidi Kitai Tommy Le Yarin Cohen

07-03-2022 14:12 UTC-8

Unusual Two Pair for Kyriakides

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Joining the action on the flop, Jarrett Hlavaty bet 8,000 on the button when checked to. Miltiadis Kyriakides in an early position and the Cypriot called. The turn brought another check-call worth 20,000 by Kariakides and the on the river was checked.

Hlavaty checked behind and Kyriakides announced two pair while rolling over the for quad sevens. Some laughter followed as David Cabrera joked "we gotta stop talking about football, I think we are annoying them."

Player	Chips	Progress
Miltiadis Kyriakides	375,000 100,000	100,000
David Cabrera	120,000 16,000	16,000
Jarrett Hlavaty	120,000 87,500	87,500

Tags: David Cabrera Jarrett Hlavaty Miltiadis Kyriakides

07-03-2022 14:04 UTC-8

Updated Counts in the Field

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Joachim Haraldstad	620,000 210,000	210,000
Conrad Fourie	540,000 165,500	165,500
George Wang	480,000 175,100	175,100
Kazuhiko Yotsushika	475,000 29,500	29,500
Patrick Leonard	370,000 28,000	28,000

Tommy Le	360,000 40,000	40,000

Michael Duek	330,000 104,500	104,500

Ashly Butler	300,000 48,500	48,500
Jared Jaffe	256,000 256,000	256,000
Nitesh Rawtani	240,000 12,500	12,500
Toby Lewis	240,000 11,000	11,000

Anson Tsang	220,000 40,500	40,500

Davidi Kitai	175,000 4,000	4,000

Bruno Fitoussi	175,000 110,000	110,000
Chris Brewer	150,000 90,000	90,000
Keith Ferrera	140,000 14,500	14,500
Matthew Wantman	140,000 17,000	17,000

Eli Elezra	80,000 25,500	25,500

Vincent Moscati	55,000 11,000	11,000
Matt Waxman	45,000 40,000	40,000

Phil Hellmuth	35,000 25,000	25,000